sticksandbones | [netbook] very important questions, obviously

Unfortunately all I know is therapy. I sort of dabble in music therapy?

I know about normal therapy :O What's music therapy? I guess it seems obvious when I think about it, but am I supposed to play the music, or do I make Mr. Jellyfish do it?

Well, I don't know anything about magic but

There's a ~~plant?~~ herb?? that helps but I dunno if it's here or not

An herb? What herb is it :O

Actually herb might not be right either? It's more like a weed.

[Hahaha he thinks he's so funny.]

it has a lot of names. marijuana, mary jane, pot, depends where you get it from. But if you can get a hold of it and smoke it, it will help a ton!

Oh, I know about that plant :O But I'm not sure how well I'd do on drugs. You've seen me drunk... I have one glass and I want to party, two glasses and I cry a lot.

Three and I'm naked trying to fuck on the roof, so. (You haven't seen this one and my self-control willing, you never will.)

I don't know if weed would fix anything, I suppose is what I'm getting at. I have weird reactions to things humans consume.

[No you have standard drug reactions to drugs, Ain. Just because the other people around you aren't undressing when they're drunk doesn't mean your sample size isn't biased bud.]

Fair enough. Roof seems like an uncomfortable place to fuck, but I get it. Honestly before I knew you weren't human I just thought you were a lightweight?

[Listen. Ryan could undress while drunk too, but it would take him at least twice as much to get there minimum, and that's saying something considering how skinny he is.]

Weed's way different, but I'm not gonna push it - with your luck you might wind up someone who gets super paranoid on it and you SO don't need that right now.

I don't even know how to do that in the first place so you're probably right :O

Either way, humans are strange when they're on substances... everyone reacts differently, so it's hard to predict how I'd act. I model my behaviour after humans but it's not like
I can control that past a point, I think?

True, but that's kinda true for humans too I think?

Hm...

Are there like. Non-human drugs...?

...honestly, I don't know? :O It's not like I've looked into it. We didn't have time to do drugs back home, we were busy trying not to die.

Well, maybe now's the time! You know, in between things trying to kill us here. :)

Either way, the best thing to heal a non-human brain is probably something non-human, right? Even if it's not drugs.

Huh... maybe :O I just don't know where you'd get drugs for angels. Maybe Ezell knows... but his type of angel are mortal I think?

Wow, this is difficult...

Worth asking! If I knew more about angel drugs I'd help.

[A suspiciously long pause and then--]

actually wait I know one thing. if someone gives you angel dust that is NOT an angel drug stay away from that okay?

I didn't know we were dusty... haha, noted. ^^

THAT depends a loooot on what you mean by "healing"! Brains can be awfully malleable and had my powers not been stripped I could do just about anything to it, really.

What exactly do you need done?

I want to learn how to heal the hurt from brains :O

Oh.

Huh.

[a little glittery (...) pops up as Shadow Milk thinks this over. Just a moment.]

So MAYBE there is a way I can help you, but I can't conjure up such a spell out of nothing! I'll have to break it down into formulas, etc. Complicated magic, you understand- [But he is already thinking about how he can do it, there's a bunch of magic formulas screaming across his brain as he writes this.] What's in it for me?

[He wants a new outfit-]

:OOO

Wowwww, Mr. Clown is so helpful~ ^^

I guess it depends on what you want. [The voices in his head are like are you sure you should do that? And Ain laughs and says yes he's doing that :) thanks, dream hallucinations of his pals that Zahran gave him in an effort to cure his depression.] You already know my skillset includes tailoring and healing. I'm being told not to do anything dangerous now though, so I can only offer that, unless you want a box of pastries from the bakery. ^^

HOW FORTUNATE FOR YOU!!! I was juuuust thinking I'd like another outfit from your shop! How about an exchange, then?

[HOO HOO excellent. His reputation is secured, now he doesn't have to act like he is being charitable when now he's been given a fun puzzle to work out. After all, his magic is so weird in this place, he's no choice but to break spells down into the base formulas in order to write them properly.]

[Unlike before when he could just MAKE stuff happen. Anyway.]

I'll need to pick your brain about the specifics, though! After all, "healing a brain" is very broad! What exactly would you like the spell to do? How invasive should it be? There's spells that can induce a calm state, and there's spells that can erase memories, after all!

Haha, I know someone who had his memories erased once. It seems sort of cruel, so I don't want to go down that route... especially since going down that route means I'd be no better than what happens to people when they leave the Garden. :|

[Brainghost Noah is nodding along like yeah bestie I DID have my memories erased, and I am totally here and real and not a manifestation of your shit mental health.]

Inducing a calm state wouldn't be bad to know :O And I guess I'd like to be able to help with things like... I guess... something like being able to grant people good dreams?

Not in the way that just happened but in a way that helps with that thing Mr. Jellyfish is always talking about. The post traumatic something brain disease disorder. Humans and stuff have nightmares when their brains are disturbed and it contributes to a lack of sleep, doesn't it?

How very noble!

[Very deliberately does not bring up how he rewrote Pure Vanilla's memories to gaslight him into believing everything he's ever known was a lie in order to break his spirit which kind of worked for a while- It's okay, he's like ...ssssemi-reformed now. Domesticated, even.]

Anyway a spell to ward bad dreams will be easy-peasy for me to chart out! Lucky you! I'll even throw in a dash of "eases you to sleep" for kicks, because I am so generous!

Three days, and I'll have it done!

[The way this game has domesticated so many feral people... truly wonderful, sniffle sob.]

Three days! Haha, okay. Tell me what you want for your outfit, unless you want me to surprise you :O A general vibe is okay if you don't have specific details.

[ Is this guy for real??? ]

N... no. I don't think something like that could be healed so easily since it ties into memories and emotions and stuff... I guess talking to someone could help a bit if you mean other than therapy though.

The spectre in the dimensional library healed my brain :/ Kind of. I want to learn how to do that. I know about therapy already.

If something like that existed, I think a lot less of us would be so fucked up right now.

It does from the soul fragment in the dimensional library :/ But I don't think I can learn magic from a fragment, so I was hoping someone here knew a spell for it. Clearly that sort of magic exists :O

The...soul fragment? What does that mean??

[Is it obvious Till doesn't Go to the library that often despite rooming with somebody who does-]

In the portal library, not the main one with the catgirl ghost but the one through the portal, there's a fragment of a soul in there :O You should go talk to him, he's food-motivated and very helpful.

How can a SOUL fragment be food motivated, exactly?

I'm also just a soul you know :O and I like eating :O

If you're just a soul then how do you have a body?

Magic :O

Just saying it's ~magic~ doesn't explain anything!

Well, I'm not sure how it works! This body is just... like a shell, I guess...?

[...]

Does that...hurt?

No? I feel normal, I think?

So that don't bother you then? Being a "shell".

[Let's not talk about that—]

Haha, even if it did... this is just who I am, right~?

I mean...I guess.

Wish I could be that optimistic about shit.

Have you... tried talking to the goddesses? They might know about a magic like that...

I talked to Goddess Ourania already and she helped with my scars from the Forest Bastard :O

I know that magic exists because the soul fragment in the dimensional library through the portal used it on me to help me out. But he said that faith in him is dangerous because it could power up Mr. Grouchy Pants in the Woods, and I don't know if he can teach magic :/ I wanted to learn what he did, though, so I thought someone here might have that sort of skill.

I can only do the magic Ourania has taught me, and even then, I'm not very good at it. But, um, if you'd like, I haven't read a book to Hoshibi this month. Maybe I could ask them if they have any insight about this?

I should really sit down and help you with learning to heal... I'm not actually a good teacher though :( Nikolaus nearly burnt his eyebrows off because of me.

But if you could ask, that would be nice :O!

That's not true! You're a fantastic teacher! You are teaching me how to play guitar, remember? It's a lot of fun!

I will do this! I'll also check the library, too, in case there's something you missed, okay?

Yay, thank you! Haha, I'll try to teach you more magic then. ^^

I dunno how much magic I'll be willing to learn. I think I'm kinda limited to the stuff that moon-y magic can do, but... I dunno how all that works. :P

I'll be the best student, regardless!

Right, but I meant more magic as in "more lessons" and not more types. Does that make sense? :O

Ohh, yes! It does! Hehe, just let me know when you've got free time!

Haha, Mr. Jellyfish, I have nothing but time~

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